Comments on: 7 ways to manage your email overload

By: Daphne Gray-Grant

Daphne Gray-Grant — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:57:00 +0000

In reply to Sthrendy. Stop checking your email!! (Apologies that my writing this will generate another email for your inbox.)

By: Daphne Gray-Grant

Daphne Gray-Grant — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:55:00 +0000

In reply to Bill Paarlberg. I agree: The Web is one big distraction machine!!

By: Sthrendy

Sthrendy — Fri, 11 May 2012 19:03:00 +0000

In reply to Bill Paarlberg. I was going to return to the story I was working on when I checked my email to see Bill's comment. Now, I'm going to print it out and stick it at the top of my monitor. NO PEEKING!

By: Bill Paarlberg

Bill Paarlberg — Fri, 11 May 2012 18:57:00 +0000

Your point about distraction is excellent. You can take it further when you consider the Web as a whole: it is designed to distract people. The effectiveness and value of Web pages, ads, emails, facebook, tweets, etc. is often based on how effective they are at getting you to click on something. Thus we are constantly being encouraged to do something other than what we are doing. And having to fight against it.

By: Daphne Gray-Grant

Daphne Gray-Grant — Wed, 09 May 2012 14:39:56 +0000

In reply to Hester Riches. I can believe both of those statements seeing how my own productivity plummets following email, phone calls and/or a bad night's sleep.

By: Hester Riches

Hester Riches — Wed, 09 May 2012 10:10:00 +0000

I found this article last week: “Workers distracted by e-mail and phone calls suffer a fall in IQ more than twice that found in marijuana smokers.” ” and ” ‘infomania a serious threat to workplace productivity” http://www.rsablogs.org.uk/2012/socialbrain/myth-multitasking/

By: Daphne Gray-Grant

Daphne Gray-Grant — Wed, 09 May 2012 03:06:00 +0000

In reply to Louise Julig. Very cool. Is it expensive? (And thanks for not filtering my email!)

By: Daphne Gray-Grant

Daphne Gray-Grant — Wed, 09 May 2012 03:05:00 +0000

In reply to Sthrendy. Yeah, FB is the enemy of my kids, for sure. For me, it doesn't have the same lure as email. Guess that shows my age!

By: Sthrendy

Sthrendy — Wed, 09 May 2012 00:52:00 +0000

This is the REAL enemy:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/the-hot-button/are-you-a-facebook-addict-take-the-doctor-designed-test/article2425557/

By: Louise Julig

Louise Julig — Tue, 08 May 2012 23:50:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne Gray-Grant. Mostly it is educated guesses of things that look like newsletters. But you can also train it by telling it specifically which things you want to go straight to your In box (as I do with your newsletter, BTW ;-) and which things you can wait to look at in the digest. You can also train certain things to go to a Black Hole where you will never see them. This is useful for mailing lists that you can't unsubscribe to no matter how often you have tried.